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 Sometimes people have a hard time understanding who Jesus is. Part of setting the ground work may involve a lot of explaining about who the church is and what the bible says who Jesus is. Part of becoming a Christian is understanding the answer to this question. If you are coming from a place where you have no knowledge of God, it can be very difficult to believe in Christ, unless it is explained to you. When it comes to making big choices in our lives, it is very important that we all make informed decisions. This applies to becoming a Christian, or accepting Christ into your life.  How do you inform yourselves when the way seems uncertain? Our lives are constantly wrapped in darkness from our birth to our last day here. That doesn't mean that we live our lives by blind faith. Just because we don't have the answers to something doesn't mean that we never will. Sometimes we have to act by faith, and let that light guide us as it will. It is not a weakness to seek out the t...

  If the Spirit of God, (Holy Spirit) who raised Jesus from death, lives in you, then he who raised Christ from death (the Holy Spirit) will also give life to your mortal bodies by the presence of his Spirit in you. (Resurrection life, and resurrection from the dead-[after physical death]) -(eternal Life). When one becomes a Christian they receive a new nature which enables them to live for God, and to put off the sins of the flesh. The old nature must die because it is corrupted by sin, and the new nature is enlivened by the Holy Spirit. The old nature is dormant when a person receives the Holy Spirit, and it is by cooperation with the Holy Spirit that one puts away the evil deeds of the flesh. We should never feed our old selves, that is the person we were before trusting Christ.  If we put to death the sinful actions of the human nature, and live by the spirit, not by the sinful human nature we will live. If you continue to be led by the sinful human nature, you will die in...

  We are forgiven only when we trust Jesus Christ as our personal Lord and Saviour. For those who haven’t made that decision yet, their past sins can keep them from heaven. Being born again changes your character and you begin to love God. You go from being indifferent to God to becoming a saint. Salvation describes an inner change from being spiritually dead, to spiritually alive. When you accept Christ all your sins are forgiven, past, present and future sins. It’s a one time deal with eternal consequences.   Our responsibility is to believe and have faith. When we commit a sin as christians, our first responsibility is to confess it to God, but what recourse does a sinner have when they sin gravely? They must first come to Jesus in repentance and faith, in order to receive a full pardon for all their sins. There is no individual pardon, unless a person fully commits their lives to Jesus.  It might seem unfair that some are pardoned and others are not, but the bible tea...

  I have always understood God to be a forgiving God, but we all have had questions about the limit and nature of God’s forgiveness. I’m not an expert, but I am human, which automatically makes me a candidate for his mercy. The nature of the Lord’s forgiveness is immediate and unconditional based on his mercy. God is merciful, therefore he never turns someone away because of the nature of the sin, or the frequency that we call out to Him.   Sometimes we have a hard time believing we can be forgiven, but our forgiveness is unconditional based on our hearts and the mercy of God. We can be burdened at times with the hardships we bear, and sometimes we feel we don’t deserve God’s mercy. It is during these times that God’s grace leads us to him if we allow it. When we ask the Lord to forgive us, he is not looking at our sins, but graciously extends his mercy freely. We don’t deserve it and because we tend to feel that God won’t hear us, sometimes we forget to ask him for His grace....

  We live in a day where there is a lot of confusion about how one is saved. It’s not that the churches are confused, it’s that we still live in a time period where the church is still divided about Justification by faith. The reformation brought a freedom, but also separated the church, probably right until the second coming of Jesus.   Justification can be a strange doctrine depending where you are coming from. The modern argument is that if it is not by faith alone, then mankind adds to their holiness and possibly their salvation which of course would take the glory away from God, and place it on fallen man. On the other hand, if it is by faith alone, the argument is that a saved man is given too much freedom after he accepts the Lord, and is therefore given a licence to sin. Our consciences don’t want to accept the simplicity of a free gift, because we fear that if it is free, then we don’t have to change after salvation.  The division lies with man in the sense that ...